Hill Parking & Jacking points

[Igg]

My work place has a fairly hilly parking lot and I was wondering if there's any additional strain placed on the gearbox when placed in [P]arked and also engaging the hand brake the other foot break in the rogue's place. Anyone have any experience with their cars being parked in a sloped place for a long time like in San Francisco?

My other question is that I saw in the FAQ of how to change your brake pads, there was a pic of the jacking points. I'm assuming that's from the manual, could anyone point me to which section it's in?

Thanks

[Nick 568]

The jacking and tire-changing information is at the beginning of section 6 in the owner's manual, 6-2 to be exact.



I believe that the general consensus is that wear on the driveline components due to parking the car by just putting it into Park is minimal. However, when parking on a hill, I prefer to use the parking brake so that less strain is placed on the driveline just in case. Not like you're hurting anything by doing that.
Also, I figure if say you're parked in the street, on a steep hill, and someone smashed into your car while you're parked, the handbrake will be there to first stop it rolling as far, and second, stop it from rolling down the hill if the impact disconnects a driveshaft or something.

[philipa_240sx]

Not that this would be a problem with the Rogue... but I saw this happen once:

A friend parked his GMC Jimmy on an inclined parking lot at work. It was a manual transmission so he simply left it in neutral and engaged the parking brake. During his shift, the parking brake cable snapped/let go and the vehicle rolled backwards across the parking lot and over the top of a 8ft tall retaining wall.... straight into a garbage dumpster!

[kerrton]

Oh man, you should've ran over and grabbed a couple of pics, then you could've shared them with us; I'm sure your friend wouldn't have minded!!!

[philipa_240sx]

It was a long time ago... about 18+ yrs. Digital cameras were just a novelty then...

Boy, was he pissed though. Never parked his Jimmy again without leaving it in gear and the parking brake on.

Funnily enough, I made a similar mistake with my Altima. I parked it in neutral (5 spd manual) and left the parking brake off. While I was walking away, my wife turned to me and asked why the car was rolling. Craaaappp! Boy did I run! Managed to unlock and stop the car before it 'rolled away'.

[philipa_240sx]

Oops!... my memory is failing me.

The Jimmy DID NOT end up in the dumpster. It hit a 10" round sign pole... if the pole wasn't there it would have ended up in the dumpster... either way he learned his lesson.

[takeshi]

Don't forget to turn your wheels properly when parking on an incline!

Seems weird for me to say this since Houston is extremely flat.